"Recent statements by the departing US Secretary of State and likely 2016 Presidential contender Hillary Clinton characterizing the Russian-led Eurasian regional economic integration process as “a move to re-Sovietize the region” that the US is trying to prevent are both factually incorrect and embarrassing, as well as a dangerous retreat into Cold War rhetoric and mentality. If such claims are taken seriously, then we might just as well speak of the EU as the “re-Nazification” of Europe, NAFTA as a return to the policies of Manifest Destiny, and APEC as a rejuvenation of the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Russian government should rightly regard these attacks... as both a serious security threat and an unacceptable interference into the sovereign affairs of Russia and all involved states. After this, there remains no question that the so-called “reset” is over and that a new Cold War has been declared to take its place in US policy toward Russia, whatever pretense is played out in public. Thus it would be folly for Russia to return to a policy of accepting the political interference...A state cannot be “granted” recognition of its “sovereignty” by a cessation of attacks on its sovereignty. That is blackmail," explains the Voice of Russia expert Mark Sleboda, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Moscow State University, in his comments for our weekly expert panel. english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_06/US-NGO-propaganda-rhetoric-set-to-delegitimize-targeted-governments-in-the-eyes-of-the-world/ © Collage "The Voice of Russia"
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 01:34:46 +0000
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